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The Baronne is blooming

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cluster Barone Prevost

Baronne Prevost is an antique rose with an amazingly strong fragrance. I seem to be on an antique rose kick today because I also posted another antique rose photo on my gardening blog today.

This rose is very hardy. It had very little die back over the winter and I didn’t give it any kind of winter protection this year either! It’s grown quite tall. It’s approximately 7 feet tall. The only complaints that I might have about it is that it has weak stems and as a result is a somewhat floppy rose. It’s also very prickly! It has both thorns and tiny fine prickles. Both of which makes working with the rose kind of dangerous to your skin!

I have Baronne Prevost growing on one side of my garden opposite another antique rose called Compte De Chambord. Both are extremely fragrant and tend to bloom at the same time so standing in the middle of the garden between these two roses when they are blooming is pure heaven.

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Can old computer software be a collectors item?

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I was in the basement yesterday sorting through the many items that are stored down there and I discovered that I had a stash of old software! There’s some really old software there, I wonder if any of the old items could even be considered collectors items? Now wouldn’t that be funny?

I think I might make a list of all the old software and perhaps post it as kind of a pc software inventory list just to show you how old some of this stuff really is!

I think some of it dates back to when we got our first computer in 1991. Do you remember floppy disks? Yeah, well I’ve got old Windows 3.1 floppy disks! Tell me that’s not a collectors item.

Interchangable memory

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One of my friends has a Dell computer and she was telling me that she wanted to increase her computers memory but she was having a hard time getting Dell Memory for her computer.

I still find it funny sometimes when people assume that they must stick with a brand name, or the exact brand name of their product, when getting accessories or in this case improving their computers capacity.

I explained to her that as long as she got the same type of memory it didn’t matter if it was made by Dell. Of course you also have to get the same size, so if she had one 256K memory then she’d have to get another of the same size other wise she might run into trouble.

I just thought I’d post about this in case others were under the same assumption that you always have to buy the product by the same manufacturer.

The bean

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This is a photo of Cloud Gate. It’s a sculpture in Downtown Chicago. Locals call it “The Bean”. It’s amazing! When we were in Chicago I spent more time walking around the bean, and under it, than I did any other sight that I went to in all of Chicago.

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Isn’t that amazing?

Here’s a close up view. The large structure that you can see reflected in the background is Millennium Park. I posted a photo of the outdoor theater on my gardening website. You should visit to take a better look at it because it’s an amazing design too.

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Cool.

I just loved Chicago. I was only there for three days, but I found that it was very much like Toronto. I felt very much at home there.

Maybe Chris and I will end up going to Chicago again this summer.

BTW when these photo was posted on another site someone wondered if it was photoshopped. Nope. This is the way The Bean looks. It’s just that cool. If you ever go to Chicago you must see Cloud Gate.

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Using a pay-per-click management software program should make your campaigns more successful as you’ll be able to spot trends and gather data quickly and easily since all of your clients campaigns are listed in one software package.

If this sounds interesting you can visit the Acquisio website to schedule a demonstration, or sign up for a free thirty day trial.

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